The man sat quietly, on the edge of the Shield, his feet but a few meters above the water. His broad shoulders and masses of muscle still made him seem a tiny little thing, next to the awesome size of the dike, dwarfing in concrete splendor the whole city it was built to protect from the ever rising seas.
On the horizon, he looked at the Concorde, darting away on the mirror sea. He had asked for the crane to help empty her, but the foreman felt her cargo wasn’t worth the kilowatts. These days, Europe had little food to spare, and what they had, they usually lost to the swarms roaming the Atlantic. But it was winter, and the ship had gotten lucky. They got half a hold out of her, emptied her in a single afternoon, bent under the weight of the GMO crops and the pounding sun.
But Concorde was pretty at least. She grabbed the breeze, pulled away, back into the ocean, by her kites alone. She flew, high above the water, her keel skimming the rooftops of the dead old town. He imagined a man much like him, from a time before the Rise, looking up, squinting through Times Square’s snow, watching her sail through the grey skies.
He wondered then, if that was what a plane had looked like.
"It’s oddly beautiful, isn’t it? So deceptively peaceful..."
He turned, and saw the angel for the first time. The girl had slipped behind him in perfect silence. She was a sight of perfection, a jewel amongst the concrete and rusty pillars of the Shield. She was tall and kept standing. Her white hair flowed free to her shoulders, melting into the brightness of her polymer dress. In the fashion of her kind, it followed her every form with an everchanging tracery of clear fibers, hiding nothing of her shapes and little more of her skin.
He recognized her face. Everyone would.
"You are the Architect." He said.
She was, but she wasn’t listening. Her eyes reached afar. Concorde was fading on the horizon, her metal body distorted through the games of still heat. As she stood on the ramparts, her eyes pierced behind the beauty of the sea. She saw the most ferocious of battlefields. Her war against everything, against the heat, against the unrelenting bitch and the sea her weapon.
Even now, she felt the all-powerful force of nature tearing her apart, searing through the laces of the dress, grabbing her throat to seep underneath her skin and strangle her every gland...A valley of sweat ran in between her breasts and another down her spine. It slithered, down the rift of her ass, licking her rim softly. And in between her thighs, the lips of her cunt were a dam ready to burst...
He was but a man and lusted for her more in that second than he had anyone else but the very first. His bloated cock made an obvious show, popping an engorged bubo on his stained overalls. That, of all things, caught her eye. She gave it a passing glance and smiled a content smile.
"Good." She said. Her voice was low and sharp, a dagger whispered. "You’ll need that."
As his eyes ran along her body, her breasts, her neck, and the corner of her eyes, he realized she was ageless. Time had left nothing on her, neither the unfinished touches of youth nor the decrepitude of old age.
Her mind, of course, had always been perfect. But her body was tailored to match it, in some lab underneath the last of the eternal snows. Did they even think to ask, when they shackled her to the operating table? They penetrated her marrow, the very recipe of who she was, with stainless, greedy needles…They shredded through her DNA to sculpt her into the effigy that was needed. Not an odd shape nor a carved flaw left in her figure of marble.
For she was the Architect, the one chosen to stand for mankind against the vengeful Earth. She stood, at the very front of the greatest war that ever was, protecting a not-so-clever bunch of monkeys against the just wrath of their whole fucking planet. The ceasefire of winter would not last, they both knew. Soon spring would come, and the old bitch would summon winds and water into hurricanes, mustering everything she could to tear her down and ravage them all...
One and half billion drowned. More than ten billion still stood, still breathed, still bred.
But her Shield was so flimsy, and her cunt gushing. Fighting against her own home, she was herself a fucking flood and wanted more.
The hubris of it all.
"Show me where you live." She asked.
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He led her hurriedly on the small path atop the Shield. He struggled, his every step made awkward by his fat cock grinding against the rough synthetic thread of his overalls. She walked behind him with a perfect dancing gait, and a cool softness that lied about everything she felt.
Underneath the white dress and the Denver education, there was nothing but the unrelenting, moist grasp of the bitch onto her every cell. Her nipples ached, pressed against the lacey bars of their plastic prison. A single drop of her wet had dripped all the way down to her knee...
She admired the man, for trying to keep up appearances. He opened the rusty door of the elevator with a kind of reverence that she decided she had to destroy. Respect would not do.
In the rattling cage that brought them down the Shield’s slope, she turned away to look at the sprawling city underneath. A colony of ant-monkeys, well under the rising waters. Fighting, rushing, running, fucking each other through the narrow pores of the slums…
She had lost one a half billion of them lost to the bitch’s bad moods.
Ten billion were left, food for the flood. Her flock to keep.
And she didn’t care. She drowned her mind in the grinding of her ass against the bulge of the man’s companion’s dirty overalls. The caresses of her sweat were not enough, not anymore, so she pressed on his cock. Polymer resisted her, so she pressed harder still. The white fabric stretched over the shape of his huge cock until the flimsy thing tore on it. The rough fabric of the overalls drank the moisture of her ass. She let it rest there, rubbing her rim, a promise that soon more would come.
It drew from her a gentle sigh.
The elevator deposed them far from the beating heart of the slums. The monkeys feared her Shield. In its shadow they felt too close of the ever encroaching sea, so they settled far. But that would not save them if ever she failed. The wave would be as tall as the buildings before the Rise, the old town under the sea. No one would even get a chance to cry. She saw it every night in her sweetest dreams.
She followed the cock she craved through a lace of rusty steel roofs and smelly food, cooked wherever. They hurried past walls of fortune, and windows of tattered sheet plastic. She had been bred in a place much like this one, a lifetime ago. At first, she hid her prowesses well. Words and ideas were only a recipe for despair, so instead, she willingly dived into the mindless joys of impending doom. It silenced the endless stir inside her brain, to make herself squirt for every boy who just thought they’d ask, and to give blowjobs at that gloryhole in the fence behind the Toro Riendo.
But Denver still found her. They said she was special, and of course, she was. They made sure she was perfect, shaped her mind and body into the Architect’s. Greedy needles in her marrow. She could’ve have been happy a quiet whore; they made her a soldier instead. She was to fight for dumb monkeys against their bitch of a planet.
Standing alone against the heat, and the sea her weapon, she found new ways for them to thrive. She built the Shields, while maids made her dresses, from nothing but flimsy stuff. And for every second of struggle, she wished to still be that pretty young girl, with her naked knees in the dirt and Isabella’s hand in her hair, forcing her down to choke on cock after cock. Her mind irrelevant, her body the slums’, drowning in the cum spilt by the gallon deepest in her throat, she’d have been happy... Mindless, behind the Toro Riendo.
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His place was inordinately well kept. The plasterboard walls had been adjusted with a genuine kind of care; there was a glass window unshattered, even a solar panel somewhere, feeding a handful of watts to a water filter.